romantic

RSAA 2023: Romantic RenewalMelbourne, Australia, 6 to 8 December 2023Hosted by Monash University and Deakin University

Confirmed keynotes:

Dr Madeleine Callaghan, University of Sheffield

Professor Porscha Fermanis, University College Dublin

Professor Jon Mee, University of York

We invite proposals for the 2023 Romantic Studies Association of Australasia Conference, to be hosted in central Melbourne at Deakin Downtown. The conference will explore the theme of Renewal – broadly conceived – in Romanticism.

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2022 exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe, Brontë Studies invites new and original articles for a Special Issue devoted to the Brontës and material culture. The exhibition, co-created with historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, featured more than twenty pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories and offered intimate insight into both her domestic and literary lives.

Rocky Mountain 

Modern Language Association

Seventy-sixth annual convention
English Nineteenth-Century Panel

October 11-14, 2023

Denver, Colorado

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2023

This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University 

To be held: 13-14, November 2023 

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)

*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.

Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)

PAMLA 2023: October 26-29, 2023
Portland, Oregon

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, January 4-7th, 2024. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and/or sphere of influence. Send abstract and short bio by 17 March 2023 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume “Death, Sickness, and Plagues in 19th-century British Literature”, edited by Reyam Rammahi.

Keynotes: Professor Anahid Nersessian (UCLA; author, The Calamity Form and Keats’s Odes); Dr Adam Phillips (general editor of Freud for Penguin Books)

Victorian Elements

VISAWUS 2023
Seattle Public Library (Seattle, WA), 10/19-10/21

Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington)

We encourage papers across all disciplines. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• ❖  Elements of style in the Victorian era (design, literary form, fashion, architecture, etc.)

• ❖  Braving the elements: weather, the environment, and climate change, then and now

• ❖  The periodic table of elements and its history

• ❖  The discovery of radium, polonium, and other “new” elements

• ❖  Classical elements: earth, water, fire, air, ether

Call for Papers

MLA 2024 in Philadelphia

On Poe’s Longer Works

Poe’s theory of effect suggests that literary works should be readable in one sitting, but he published several pieces that are not. Organized and sponsored by the Poe Studies Association, this panel for the 2024 Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia will examine Poe’s longer works, including Eureka, Pym, Rodman, and others. (For example, are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” really readable in one sitting? A very long one, perhaps.) We will consider proposals that offer new and engaging readings of any of these longer texts.

The organizers of the 2023 BWWC invite papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of ‘Liberties’ in global and transatlantic British women’s writing from the long eighteenth century to the present. We ask participants to consider ‘liberties’ not only as a political abstraction but also as part of material and experiential subjectivity. Interpreted broadly, liberties include (but are not limited to) legal rights and freedoms, liberty of the person and bodily autonomy, liberties of creative and artistic expression, liberty of profession and vocation, freedom of movement both physical and social, and self-determination in the private and public spheres.

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels at the 34th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 25–28 May 2023 at The Westin Copley Place in Boston. Please help us circulate these calls far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

SESSION 1

Foundations for the "World at Large": Women Authors and Their Homes

"No home can be healthful in which are not cherished seeds of good for the world at large."

—Margaret Fuller, New-York Tribune, 12 December 1844

CFP: edited collection -- Victorians and Videogames

Dr. Lin Young (Mount Royal University) and Dr. Brooke Cameron (Queen’s University)  invite proposals for chapters that explore the connections between video games and 19th-Century themes, texts, or aesthetics.

Project Description:

Translating Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

French/British Connections and Continuums

Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS)

Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM)

Société d’étude de la Littérature de Voyage du Monde Anglophone (SELVA

19th-20th October, 2023

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Clermont-Ferrand

France